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were to go to there and see this little town, you'd think you were really living in one of Faulkner's novels,because everybody in town is related. It's the most incestuous town you've ever heard of. And the black people of the town are related to the white people as cousins, etc..  And Old Man Yellowby who was the great, great grandfather on my maternal side of the family, was the father of my grandmother. And his descendents still live in this town, and my family,as I say, live there, and so they're all related.  Now this is where some of the killings were taking place of my family.  The trouble with this is my immediate kind of tie with my roots, so to speak in terms of its origin in a sense, at least origin in marriage, was the fact that I say that I grew up in an area which was a ghetto. My mother was a domestic worker. She had to take me to work with her because she had nobody to leave me with. We had moved into a neighborhood which was predominantly white at that time, Jewish mostly. And the Negro people had just bought what was a synagogue, and the Methodist Church had bought this synagogue. And there were four bombings immediatly after the Negroes had purchased this Jewish temple. Now it was in that framework, my mother doing domestic work, this ghetto-like existence, with all the vices and everything that goes on in a ghetto, the struggle for survival, so to speak, that my wanting communication of some

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